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South America, Tropical Africa, and India, and collected in 
Natal by Sanderson, but not found since. The above description 
and figure are from a specimen from Caracas kindly forwarded to 
me from Kew. 
A three to four-pinnatifid form (A. anthriscifolia, Schr.) has 
been collected in tropical Africa. 
Genus XXXV. — Mohria. Sw. 
Capsules marginal or almost marginal on ordinary fronds. The 
genus contains only the present species, which resembles a 
Cheilanthes, but has the capsules of this sub-order, and is confined 
to Africa and its Islands. 
153. Mohria caffrorum. Desv. 
Plate CXLI. Fig. 2. Nat. size. 3. Capsule. 
Crown erect or sub-erect, paleaceous. Fronds numerous, two- 
pinnate or three-pinnatifid, firmly herbaceous, bluntly lanceolate, 
six to eighteen inches long, one to three inches broad, with a 
paleaceous stipe three to six inches long. Pinnae distant below, 
closer above, ovate-obtuse, one inch long, half-inch broad, with 
four to seven pairs of ovate pinnules, which are pinnatifid and 
toothed when barren, but almost entire and more confluent when 
fertile. Rachis and under surface more or less paleaceous. This 
fern seems altogether out of place here, as its habit and general 
appearance would place it in Cheilanthes, but the capsules which 
are very large and marginal belong to this sub -order. The upper 
half of the frond is the part which becomes fertile, and as the 
edges turn in over the capsules, it becomes more rounded and 
looks different. It is strongly fragrant, and known as the scented 
fern ; and Pappe and Rawson mention that the dry fronds are 
pulverised, and with fat made into a cooling ointment for burns 
and scalds. They give the vernacular name as Brand-boschjes. 
The size and scaliness of the plant vary exceedingly. Forest 
grown specimens have fronds sometimes two feet long, four inches 
